Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-ῶτα” Nico 1 : (πάτριος) :—fellow-countryman : prop. of barbarians who had only a common πατρίς, πολῖται being used of Greeks who had a common πόλις, Poll. 3.54, Hsch., Phot.: hence “μήτε πατριώτας ἀλλήλων εἶναι τοὺς μέλλοντας ῥᾷον δουλεύσειν” Pl.Lg.777c ; τοῖσι Λυκούργου π., Lycurgus being satirized as an Egyptian, Pherecr. 11, cf. Alex. 326 ; also ἵπποι π., = ἐγχώριοι, X.Cyr.2.2.26 : metaph., of Mt. Cithaeron, “π. Οἰδίπου” S.OT 1091 (lyr.); π. θεός, of Dionysus, Plu.2.671c ; π. ἐστί μοι.—Ans. “ἐλάνθανες ἄρα βάρβαρος ὤν” Luc.Sol.5 ; cf. πατριῶτις.

II. later, = πολίτης, Iamb. VP5.21.

III. member of a “πατριά” 11.1, IG4.757B12 (Troezen), Michel 995 B 4 (Delph., v B. C.).